Alan McSurely and Margaret McSurely v. John K. McClellan Thomas Ratliff, Individually and as Sometime Commonwealth Attorney for Pike County Kentucky

Opinion for the Court PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM: *

Introduction

On the evening of August 11, 1967, local law enforcement officials of Pike County, Kentucky, entered Alan and Margaret McSurely’s home and seized a huge quantity of books, papers, and other personal effects. The officials arrested the McSure-lys and charged them with violation of Kentucky’s anti-sedition statute. Thus began the McSurelys’ seventeen-year odyssey through the courts. They have been involved in four lawsuits here and in the Sixth Circuit, all of which arose from the events of August 11. This court alone has rendered five…